Improvement in bench-irons for harness-makers



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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

- JAMES THORNTON, or ennnsnn, AND EMMIT e. LATTA, or FRIENDSHIP,

' NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BENCH-IRONS FOR HARNESS-MAKERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,967, datedSeptember 16, 1873; application filed July 21, 1873.

been employed. Another tool or implement in use is a raising-board, madeof wood, with grooves in the side, sometimes half-round and sometimesV-shaped, in cross-section in creasing in width from one end totheother, according to the taste or design of the workman. To place underthe leather while using the punch, a block of lead or hard wood has.

been most generally used. The object of this invention is to produce animplement which will serve as bench-iron, raising-board,punching-bloclr, and slicker; and to this end the in vention consists ina blockof iron, flat on one side, with a groove or grooves in theopposite face, a partial filling of soft metal, and a rounded corner,all substantially as hereinafter more fully described. I

In the drawing, our invention is illustrated by a perspective view. a

The letter A represents a block of iron of any suitable size and shape,and with a flat surface, a, which is the under side in the drawing. Thisis to serve as the ordinary benchiron, and is used in riveting andpounding up.

In one side of the opposite face of the block is formed a groove, .b, ofthe form shown in the drawing, or of other desired shape. The

bench-iron is now also capable of use as a raising-board. Thepunching-surface consists of soft metal 0, as lead, cast in a cavityformed in the face of the. block, said cavity being. of dovetail orother suitable form to retain the filling. One or more of the corners ofthe block A are rounded off, as at d, whereby the slicking element isadded to the implement.

The size and shape of this improved benchiron may be of course varied;and in some cases it may be found useful to leave out the punchingfilling and utilize the space it occupies for grooves of differentsizes, for raising straps in the center.

It maybe observed that this improved iron need not be larger than thosecommonly used, although it takes the place of several separate devices;and can he made at a nominal cost probably-exceeding but slightly thatof either of the several implements as heretofore made. Having thusdescribed our invention, what we claim as new, and desireto secure byLetters Patent, is

' The improved bench-iron herein described,

for the purposes specified. To the above specification of ourimprovements in bench-irons wehave signed. our names this 4th day ofFebruary, 1873.

' JAMES THORNTON.

EMMlT G. LATTA. Witnesses JOHN J. S. LEE, BENTON G. RUDE,

